Mad Science can enhance your science curriculum with inquiry-based workshops that meet the national curriculum! Structured as an in-school field trip, a Mad Science workshop is a convenient way to offer pupils a hands-on science experience without leaving the school. With professional lesson plans, unique equipment and animated practitioners, Mad Science workshops offer children a truly engaging learning experiences.

If you would like to book a workshop, please contact us on complete our on-line booking form.

Christmas Workshops

• Children build their very own snowman (with fake snow) or snowball slime whilst learning about the world of polymers

Workshops for Year 1

• 1A Ourselves – Get hands-on experience of how our senses work.
• 1B Growing Plants – Sprout new knowledge on plants and how they grow.
• 1C Sorting and Using Materials – Play with strange materials and make your own silly putty.
• 1D Light and Dark – Crazy fun with torches, flashing lights and glow-in-the dark screens.
• 1E Pushes and Pulls – Get moving with physical experiments in motion.
• 1F Sound and Hearing – Resonate some understanding about sound and vibrations.

Workshops for Year 2

• 2D Grouping and Changing Materials – Identify different materials - includes silly putty.
• 2E Forces and Movement – Ideas “collide” with further understanding of moving forces.
• 2F Using electricity – Have a chance to experience electricity hands-on.

Workshops for Year 3

• 3C Characteristics of Materials – More materials Madness!! More silly putty too…
• 3D Rocks and Soils – Erode away any misconceptions about the earth around us.
• 3E Magnets and Springs – Attractive concepts that will stretch the imagination.
• 3F Light and Shadows – Lasers, mirrors, shadows and photoluminescence!

Workshops for Year 4

• 4C Keeping Warm – Conduct experiments into temperature changes.
• 4D Solids, Liquids and how they can be Separated – Immerse yourself into slimy concepts.  
• 4E Friction – No resistance in the explanation of the factors facing movement.
• 4F Circuits and Conductors – Get switched on to making electrons flow.

Workshops for Year 5

• 5C Gases Around Us – Watch as gases create explosions and implosions.
• 5D Changing State – Discover the three states of matter. Dry ice option available.
• 5E Earth, Sun and Moon – Truly out of this world - see how the earth moves and its orbit.
• 5F Changing Sounds – “Pitching” thoughts and making “waves” with sound.

Workshops for Year 6

• 6B Micro-Organisms - Germinate understanding of bacteria and microscopic life forms.
• 6D Rev. and Irreversible Changes – Catalyze knowledge of chemical reactions & mix up some slime.
• 6E Forces in Action – Combine forces to move your understanding forward.
• 6G Changing Circuits – Make circuits and investigate electrical components.

Additional Workshops:

• Dinosaurs – Discover bones in an archaeological dig and make your own T-rex tooth!
• Mineral Mania – Investigate the Earth’s formation and delve into Geology.
• Black & Blue Oceans – Learn about pollution and find some ecological solutions.
• Worms - ideal for reception and nursery children
• Photosynthesis - ideal for reception and nursery children